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Extraction 2 Confirmed at Netflix

This article contains spoilers for Extraction Extraction 2 is happening at Netflix, it’s been announced. Marvel Cinematic Universe stalwart Joe Russo will be back on writing duties for the sequel, according to THR, after he and the streaming service came to an agreement this week. The first film stars Chris Hemsworth as grieving mercenary Tyler Rake, who sets out to rescue the kidnapped son of a notorious crime lord. A week after Extraction‘s late April debut, Hemsworth revealed that it was projected to be “Netflix’s biggest feature film of all time” with “an estimated 90 million households” checking it out…
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Netflix’s Extraction: Ending Explained

This article contains major spoilers for the ending of Extraction. In the new Netflix movie Extraction, a lethal black market mercenary named Tyler Rake (Chris Hemsworth) goes on a deadly mission to Dhaka, Bangladesh to rescue the teenage son of an imprisoned crime lord from the clutches of an even more ruthless rival. Rake is haunted by memories of his own young son, who died of leukemia while Rake was away on a mission in Afghanistan. With nothing left to lose, Rake gradually sees the mission as a path back to humanity and redemption. As the movie reaches its climax,…
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Netflix’s Extraction Director Breaks Down That One-Take Action Sequence

The new Netflix movie Extraction stars Chris Hemsworth (Avengers: Endgame) as Tyler Rake, a highly efficient mercenary who is dispatched to Dhaka, Bangladesh to rescue the teenage son of a drug lord from an even more ruthless one. With a big bad kingpin controlling the streets, Rake and Ovi (Rudhraksh Jaiswal) must fight for every inch of the way to get out of the city and make it to freedom. Produced by Anthony and Joe Russo (from Joe’s screenplay) and directed by Sam Hargrave, stunt coordinator and second unit director on the Russos’ Marvel movies, Extraction is already getting a…
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Extraction: Bringing the Netflix Chris Hemsworth Movie to Life

In Extraction, a mercenary for hire named Tyler Rake (Chris Hemsworth) is on a seemingly impossible mission: rescue the teenage son of one imprisoned drug lord from another, an immensely powerful criminal chieftain who has almost unprecedented control over the teeming city of Dhaka, Bangladesh, its law enforcement and even its street urchins. Rake is a killing machine, capable of dispatching swarms of assassins almost singlehandedly, but he’s also tormented by demons of his own and an unspeakable tragedy from his past. As he and his team face new dangers and betrayals around every corner, his mission becomes not just…
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Extraction Review: Chris Hemsworth Can’t Save This

The first line of dialogue Chris Hemsworth has in Extraction is literally “hold my beer.” He says it because, tired of brooding behind sunglasses, he’s about to jump off a breathtaking cliffside into a rock quarry’s reservoir—so he can brood some more beneath the surface. He also says it because it’s exactly that kind of movie. For better and definitely worse. Clearly hoping to present itself as something akin to the Sicario movies and other cynical realpolitik action-thrillers, Netflix and director Sam Hargrave’s Extraction actually functions more like the type of Sylvester Stallone or Chuck Norris action movies that used…
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Extraction

Tyler Rake (Chris Hemsworth) is a fearless black market mercenary with nothing left to lose when his skills are solicited to rescue the kidnapped son of an imprisoned international crime lord. But in the murky underworld of weapons dealers and drug traffickers, an already deadly mission approaches the impossible, forever altering the lives of Rake and the boy. Rated: RRelease Date: Apr 24, 2020
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